HOWS Barcelona – Housing World Summit 2026
3 November 2026 – 5 November 2026
Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain
HOWS Barcelona | Housing World Summit is an international platform, promoted and hosted by Barcelona City Council and organised by Fira Barcelona within the framework of Smart City Expo World Congress, where governments, cities, investors, academia, multilateral institutions, public agencies, industry and non-profit organisations address urban housing across five themes: urban planning and land policy, housing regulation, social and affordable housing, building innovation, and renovation, retrofit and reuse. The 2026 edition is its first.
43 sessions · 120 speakers
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Agenda
- Opening Session: Urban Solutions. Real Impact 3 November 2026 · Main Stage
- HOWS Barcelona Opening Session 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Laying the foundations from the ground up: Towards a Housing Justice Academy 3 November 2026 · Zone: CC1 – Room 1.4
- Keynote Session 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- The challenge of cities in making housing affordable for all – what can they expect from the EU? 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Housing Land Availability 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Unlocking Land: Strategic Tools for Housing Delivery at Scale 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Against the Tide: Prospects for Housing Affordability in Budapest and Europe 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Rent, Tourism and Speculation: How Cities are Fighting Back Against Market Distortions 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Beyond Conventional Housing: What Can Different European Models Learn from Each Other? 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Meet with Anne Hidalgo, Former Mayor of Paris and GCoM Global Ambassador 3 November 2026 · Main Stage
- Another Way: Community-led Housing and Public-Private-Community Partnerships in Practice 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Industrialized Housing Production 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Speed, Quality, Scale: Rethinking How we Produce Homes 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- When Standard Renovation is not Enough: Barcelona’s Complex-Building Approach 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Where Policy Meets Practice: Barcelona’s Journey in Housing Renovation and Urban Regeneration 3 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Unlocking Land for Affordable Housing: From Planning to Delivery 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- How can Land Policy Drive Affordable Housing at Scale? 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Building Public Housing Systems: City and Regional Approaches 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- From Projects to Systems: How Cities Build and Sustain Public Housing Systems 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Keynote Speech: Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of UN-Habitat 4 November 2026 · Main Stage
- The Right to Stay: How Are Mayors Responding to the Global Housing Crisis? 4 November 2026 · Main Stage
- Beyond Decarbonization: Making Housing Resilient, Affordable and Sustainable 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Housing and the Climate Transition: From New Build to Deep Retrofit 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Addressing Europe’s Housing Crisis: From European Frameworks to Local Solutions 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Global Emergency, Local Policies: Building Long-Term Public Responses to the Housing Crisis 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Housing, Health and Connection: Building an Inclusive City 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Can Densification Deliver Without Displacing? 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Building Rehabilitation 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Old Buildings, New Standards: How Cities can Upgrade Existing Housing 4 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- World Smart City Awards Ceremony 4 November 2026 · Main Stage
- Making Housing Finance Work for Affordability. Lessons from a European Parliament Study 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- How can we Finance Affordable Housing When Public Budgets are Never Enough? 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Metropolitan-Scale Housing Strategies: Leadership Beyond City Boundaries 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- One Market, Many Governments: Coordinating Housing at Regional Scale 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Super Prime: The Sterilization of the City 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Meet with Andre Dickens, Mayor of Atlanta 5 November 2026 · Main Stage
- Barcelona Social Inclusion Housing Network 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Governance Matters: Managing a Growing Social Housing Stock 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Ana Abrunhosa, Mayor of Coimbra 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Magdalena Młochowska, Deputy Mayor of Warsaw 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Place, People, Policy: Regenerating Neighbourhoods to Live and Belong in 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona
- Housing Closing 5 November 2026 · Stage: HOWS Barcelona